Bathtub



E. F. SCHWARTZ.

BATHTUB.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28,1918.

1,432,916, Patented 0ct.24,1922.

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' BATHTUB.

Application filed June 28, 1918. Serial No. 242,349.

To all whom it may concern: This swell 4 projects at the front of the Beit known that EMMA F. SCHWARTZ, tub and is provided with a shallowrounded I citizen of the United States, residing at cavity or recess 6in its top which Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and opens into theinterior of the tub and 5 State of Ohio, has invented certain new slopesdownwardly in the same direction to 45 and useful Improvements inBathtubs, of drain into the tub. The cavity is preferwhich the followingis a specification. ably of semi-circular shape and rounded in Thisinvention relates to an improvemeut all of its surfaces to make acomfortable and in bath tubs, the object being to provide a secure seatwhich may be occupied With 10 recessed seat in the wall of the tub in asafety under bathing conditions, and while [)0 plane beneath the topthereof, whereby an the depth of the seat is such that it liesindividual may be comfortably and securely mainly beneath the topsurface of the tub seated above the water line and bathe and it isshallow enough to permit the occupant wash from this elevated positionin drainage to turn therein and face either the inside relation to'theinterior of the tub. The seat or outside of the tub. One end wall of theis also extended forwardly at the front of tub is also provided with arounded depresthe tub and located midway of the ends sion or cavity 7 atthe upper edge thereof, thereof, thereby permitting the occupant towhich is of a size and shape to admit and move and work freely andwithout being hold the neck of a person reclining in the 20 crowded inthe otherwise narrowed portion tub. A recessed head rest 8 is alsoprovided of the tub. The occupant is also within easy opposite the neckcavity 7 and this head rest reach of the faucets or valves which controlmay be slightly inclined and projected upthe intake of water, and theextended seat wardly more or less above the roll or top permits. theuser of the tub to enter and border of the tub.

25 leave the tub while in a sitting position, that What I claim is: is,he may face either way and turn while A bath tub having greater lengththan seated. This side seat is also of advantage width and provided witha vertical front where an attendant must work outside of wall having ashallow concaved seat of semithe tub, as in bathing children orinvalids. circular outline formed integrally with. its

30 In the accompanying drawing, F ig, l is upper edge and protruding tothe front side a perspective view of a tub embodying my thereofintermediate the ends of said tub invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view, andFig. and adapted to permit a person to sit upon 3 atransverse section,ofthe tub. said seat and to turn in either direction a The tub 2 may bemade of porcelain or thereon and face either'the rear or front side 35metal and built with or without feet, and of the tub.'

the walls of the tub may be wrought into Signed at Cleveland, in thecounty of diiferent shapes and designs. However, and Cuyahoga, and Stateof Ohio, this 29th da preferably one side Wall 3 of the tub is made ofMay, 1918. y with a swell or extension 4 at its middle in-

